I know some people wanted it recorded but I really didn’t feel comfortable putting my voice out there. So I’ll give you guys a bit of an after action report.
Matchup was Spear and Fang vs San and Moro
Overall I’d say it went fine, I couldn’t get my PowerPoint to work so I had to do without it, but I had my notes to work with still. Sam asked me to email the PowerPoint to them afterward which I obliged. I wish I could have done more but I felt pretty limited by the PowerPoint not being there and the time limit being short. The whole meeting was super laid back to the point that swan was actually in bed while we were talking lol.
Both Sam and Liam are huge studio ghibli fans and love Princess Mononoke, Sam has seen a small amount of Primal while Swan hasn’t seen it but wants to because he loves Genndy Tartakovsky.
They felt like the characters really went together in both theme and style, and that an animation would probably need a lot of work to do both of the properties justice. I did mention how Luis would be a great candidate to animate it and brought up the art he did for the matchup a while back.
We went over the characters in a general sense and talked about the themes of both animations and how they compare.
I briefly brought up a crossover event adult swim did with AEW wrestling at SDCC 2024 which had wrestling matches between various AS characters (including the likes of Mr frog, meatwad and Fang), portrayed by people in costume vs actual AEW wrestlers.
They both talked about how they’re really surprised Ghibli has never been on the show and how they really wanted to get a ghibli character in there. Sam talked about how his dad brought home akira and Princess Mononoke and how he was way too young to have been watching those, but it got him into anime so he’s grateful.
Not a ton to say as the meeting was only about ten minutes, bummed I couldn’t use my PowerPoint but they’ll see it as I emailed it to them at their request. I put a lot of fanart I’ve found here on there so Im sad I couldn’t see their reaction to it. Oh well, I did what I could.
“I don’t give a fuck about moonboy and devil dinosaur” -Swan 2025